Lol I don't give a shit about 56-yr old engineers from some bygone era hanging on for a few more years. In 2017, "civil" engineering is simply obscure, especially for people trying to muscle their way into patent law.

My degree is BS Civil but I call myself a structural engineer. I design bridges. The pay is OK. The best part of my work, for me, it when I have to come up with a novel solution to a particular problem, or create a complex model of something. The worst part is midnight bridge inspections.

Can you tell us your pay and years of experience? Or approximately if you're worried about doobs or whatever.

How many hours per week do you typically work? How hard is it to find a job as a structural engineer? Both in terms of how you'd perceive the market for new graduates right now, and in terms of if you yourself were fired, how long it would take you to find a new job.

I work 40 hours a week normally. If there is a deadline I work as long as I have to to meet it. You will be paid straight time overtime unless you are management and on a salary. The market is regional and here (Chicago) the market has high demand for structural engineers of all levels, you will find a job. If I were fired I could find a job in Chicagoland pretty easily.

I was a patent litigator at a top firm with a philosophy degree lmao... I was writing claim construction briefs in billion dollar ANDA cases and had literally no clue what the fuck any of the words meant. it was pretty 180

No, although they aren't particularly in demand. We don't look at what classes people took. We look at the listed name of your degree and your GPA. This is all client driven. We can't put "aerospace engineers" on some random company's mechanical work and say it's close enough.

Not about ignorance. I can't even tell you how many times a candidate with some random major has told me with the classes they took, they pretty much could have a cs or ee degree. Nobody wants to hear it, you have the degree you have.

I honestly don't know or care. I imagine it must vary from school to school. Regardless, I know clients at non-aero clients will not know what an aerospace engineering degree is and will not want to see such people working on their projects.

We don't see that many aero candidates, and we don't have that much of a need for mechE people anyways. They need to have rockstar credentials as well as interpersonal skills to have any chance. No incentive to try to accomodate obscure majors.